Nov 152010
DLT labels
The new labels are in! On Wednesday of last week, I ordered some labels from get-it-low on eBay. They shipped on Thursday, and they arrived today (Monday). The item is listed as New Quantum ATL SDLT DLT Bar Code Labels Tag 6210201-02 and sold for $9.99 plus $5.84 shipping, for a total of $15.83 USD. These labels are for the 220+ DLT labels which I obtained from a friend (he knows who he is). They were decommissioning a whole bunch of DLT drives and these tapes were surplus. Rather than trash them, he overwrote them, several times with different streams of 1s and 0s. Then gave them to me. However, with a tape library which contains a bar-code label, you pretty much want barcodes.The labels

Pool { Name = Fulls Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 3 years Storage = DigitalTapeLibrary } Pool { Name = Incrementals Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 3 months Storage = DigitalTapeLibrary } Pool { Name = Differentials Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 3 months Storage = DigitalTapeLibraryI’ll be using the standard Bacula schedule:
# and incremental backups other days Schedule { Name = "WeeklyCycle" Run = Level=Full 1st sun at 5:55 Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 5:55 Run = Incremental mon-sat at 5:55 }Why keep differential for 3 months if I run monthly backups? Because I can. Sometimes a file changes several times in a month, let alone a week. If we can keep copies of that around, why not? A similar argument applies to the incremental backups, which are run every day. I’ll work through all this in the coming dates.